Hope for people with cataracts. A study by Chinese and American ophthalmologists showed that the main component of Nivea cream, the eye condition can remedy possible.
It’s the fabric lanosterol. The researchers have shown that the substance dissolves in the ophthalmic lenses of cataract rabbits and dogs. The results of the study are published by science journal Nature. Now cataracts only be remedied by replacing the clouded lens of the eye with a plastic lens. That’s an expensive operation
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Cataracts are caused by proteins clump together and cloud the vision . Lanosterol would remedy that protein lumps. The team tested the substance on dissected lenses of 13 rabbits and seven live dogs with cataracts. In all treated lenses for cataract was noticeably reduced after six weeks; with three dogs and three rabbits lenses, there was even no cataracts in sight.
Who has cataracts and right now Nivea cream will lubricate the eye that can not do better. It is still not clear whether it also works in humans, if only because lenses greatly by species differences and there are different types of cataracts
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The Nijmegen emeritus professor of molecular biology Lettie Lubsen in the Volkskrant even gloomy. She compares with cataracts boiling an egg and doubts that you can prevent or even reverse with lanosterol. Moreover, they have yet to see it is to apply “. It is already very eye drops often tried, but always without success.”
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